James montgomery



grant atria.

JAMES MONTGOMERY, OF SING SING NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 98,290, dated December 28, 1869.

IMPROVED BAR OI HORSESHOE-BLANKS,

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES MONTGOMERY, of SingSing, in the county of Westchester, and State of New York, have inventeda new and useful improved article of manufacture, consisting of Bars ofHorseshoe-Iron; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same. j

This invention relates to'an improved method of manufacturinghorseshoe-iron, according to the withindescribed method, and drawingthesame into bars, and moulding, notching and creasing such bars, so as toform thereof a connected series of horseshoe-blanks, by passing the samebetween rollers.

In preparing the material for my improved iron, I use for the upper orinner side of the bar any good quality of homogenous wrought-iron, ofsufficient thickness to give the required. strength to the bar, andenable me to punch the holes for the reception of the nail, whichsecures the shoe to the foot of the animal,

without breaking that portion which is outside of such holes orapertures.

For the lower or outer portion of the bar, I employ a hard quality ofiron, to prevent the rapid wear of the shoe after it has been placedupon the foot of the animal.

This quality of iron I propose to produce in the following mauner:

In puddling or decarbonizing the iron, I arrest the process at thatstage thereof which will cause the pr0- duct to be of a hard, grnnularcharacter, or just before it assumes the'siiti and sticky character offully decarbonized or refined iron.

A bar made of this metal, and abar of tough, fibrous wrought-iron are tobe properly piled -upon each other, heated and passed through rollersfor the purpose of welding them together, when, by means of othersuitably-prepared rollers, it is to be drawn out into bars suitable forshoes, and creased for the reception of the heads of the nails, andnotched at the points where the blanks are to be separated, by'havingthe proper projections formed upon the rollers, or

that character, however produced, in the practice of my method ofmanufacturing horseshoe-blanks.

Having thus described my improved method of constructinghorseshoe-iron,

\Vhat I clainuand desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- As a method,welding together a bar of tough, fibrous wrought-iron anda bar of hardcarbonated iron, (not steel,) and converting the same ihto connectedhorseshoe-blanks, moulded, creased, and notched at points where suchblanks are to be separated from one another, by passing said eomposedbar between rollers,

substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses. i

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Witnesses:

WM. HAGAN, W. J. TURNER.

